Mohinder Suresh

Mohinder Suresh
Portrayed by	Sendhil Ramamurthy
First appearance	Genesis
In-story stats
Gender
Residence	Mohinder Suresh's apartment
Occupations	Professor (India) Taxi Driver (New York City, USA)
Parents	Chandra Suresh (father, deceased), Unnamed mother
Siblings	Shanti Suresh (sister, deceased)

Mohinder Suresh is a genetics professor and the son of Chandra Suresh. When he learns of his father's murder, he becomes determined to find the killer and unravel the mysteries of his father's research.

Character History

Genesis

University professor Mohinder Suresh is speaking to his class. After Nirand brings him news of his father's death in New York, Mohinder suspects that his father was murdered to silence the findings of his genetics research. He goes to his father's local apartment to look for clues and to finish his research. However, before Mohinder can thoroughly analyse his father's findings, he realizes someone is still in the apartment when the intruder's phone rings. As the mysterious stranger talks to the caller about Mohinder's father and the research, Mohinder narrowly escapes.

Later, in Brooklyn, Mohinder has taken a job as a taxi driver and rents his father's other apartment. Although it is in disarray, much of the material is still there and Mohinder begins to reorganize it.

Later Mohinder picks up Peter Petrelli, who asks him about "being special". Although Mohinder initially patronizes Peter, he eventually realizes Peter's question is more substantial and talks to him about genetics and evolution. Afterward, Mohinder gets another fare. This other man seems ordinary enough at first, requesting a ride to JFK Airport and talking about heading home after business. However, he begins to ask Mohinder about his last name "Suresh" and commenting suspiciously that he knew a Professor Suresh in India. Getting spooked, Mohinder abandons the cab and runs away. The mysterious man then gets out and is revealed to be the same man who was at Mohinder's father's apartment in India.

Don't Look Back

Mohinder finds a man in his father's apartment. The man claims he is an exterminator, but Mohinder quickly realizes that the man was planting an eavesdropping device. The man pulls a gun, after a struggle that leads out into the apartment hallway, a girl picks up the gun ("If you're the exterminator, why do you have a gun holster?"), and the man quickly leaves. The girl introduces herself as a friend of Mohinder's father and enthusiastic about his theories on genetics, her name is Eden McCain.

Mohinder and Eden discover a portable hard drive in his father's pet's cage. Mohinder discovers that the hard drive appears to have all the genetic research that his father had done on tracking those with special abilities.

Along the way, Mohinder learns that his father seems to have had a falling out with one "Sylar". Chandra thought Sylar was "Patient Zero", but on a recorded telephone message Chandra seems to want nothing more to do with the strange man.

One Giant Leap

Mohinder, jumping at every noise, fears for his life and has a pistol cocked and ready. Fortunately, no bad guys are breaking in, only Eden. She brings him macaroni and cheese, and they discuss his father's work. Mohinder recalls that his father never answered a question directly, but answered with another question. Frustrated, he throws his father's laptop, but by throwing it, he accidentally reveals a small book hidden in a compartment. As they thumb through the leather notebook, they discover a list of names, apparently of people all across the globe that possess "abilities". The name "Sylar" pops up, and scrawled there is his New York address. They also find a key in the book.

They make their way to his flat. They knock, but there's no answer. Mohinder produces the key that they found, but it doesn't fit. "It would have been too easy," Mohinder says. So he pulls out a screwdriver and pries the door open. They enter a very neat kitchen, with a teacup resting on the table. Mohinder takes pictures. As they go further into the apartment, the walls are covered with book shelves packed with books-all impeccably orderly. Eden notices an anatomy book laying open to a page were the face is dissected. "A little light reading before bed?" she comments. Mohinder bumps a closet door, and he inspects. What he finds is astonishing. A room lit by a string of light bulbs, and a map identical to his fathers-with more pins stuck in and yarn links. But going further in, he finds a more astounding sight. Painted up in red letters are the words "Forgive Me". In smaller letters all over the rough cement wall are written "I have sinned," over and over. Penitence? Who is Sylar? "My God, what was my father involved with?"

Collision

Mohinder tracks down Nathan Petrelli who does not listen to him, but tells Peter about him. Peter assumes the man is Chandra Suresh and visits his apartment looking for him, only to find that he has passed away and that it was Mohinder that spoke to Nathan. Mohinder is skeptical that Peter has any real power because he's unable to actually demonstrate it. Peter comes to realize that he can assume other people's powers when around them. Unfortunately Nathan is in Las Vegas, so he can't demonstrate his flight. Mohinder and Peter set out to see Isaac who, strung out on heroin, refuses to open the door. On the subway back, time freezes (including Mohinder) leaving Peter to talk with Future Hiro.

Hiros

When time unfreezes, Peter tries to persuade Mohinder to come back with him to Isaac's studio, but Mohinder refuses, telling Peter to just go home and that there are no answers.

Better Halves

Back in his apartment, Mohinder begins to pack to return to India so he can scatter his father's ashes. Eden refuses to say goodbye, claiming that he'll be back to solve the mystery of his father's research. They kiss, and he leaves for India.

Mohinder with Nirand at Chandra's funeral

Seven Minutes to Midnight

Mohinder returns to India to scatter his father's ashes. At the ceremony in Kanyakumari, his mother, his colleague Nirand, and his former lover Mira Shenoy are all present. He tells Nirand he plans to remain in India. Nirand tells him that he has not cancelled Mohinder's classes for the next semester yet, that he's welcome back at Chennai University, and that he's welcome to use his father's office. He also mentions Mira, and tells Mohinder there may be more for him to remain in India for than just a job.

At his father's office, Mohinder finds another version of the map, but this one has had all of the pins and strings removed. He accidentally nudges his father's computer and the algorithm appears. He begins to exit the program, but hesitates.

Mira comes to see him at the university. She apologizes for being so critical of his father's theories in the past. She tells Mohinder she's been promoted and offers him a job with her company—but only provided he's willing to forget all about his father's research. He tells her he'll have to think about it.

Later, Mohinder has an unusual dream. In it, he watches unobserved as he argues with his father about his plans to travel to America in pursuit of Patient Zero. The vision fades and is replaced by one of his mother and father. Again, Mohinder seems present but unobserved. His father believes he should stay in India for Mohinder's sake, but his mother convinces him to go to New York in pursuit of his theories, telling him that Mohinder will never replace "her" in his father's eyes. As he looks on, a soccer ball rolls to his feet. Looking around, Mohinder spots a a young boy in the dream—a boy who is aware of his presence. He asks the boy who he is, but he just points ... possibly at Mohinder, possibly at the ball.

Mohinder visits his mother and asks her about the dream. She confirms that what he dreamed really happened. When he asks what she meant about him never taking "her" place in his father's eyes, she confesses that Mohinder had an older sister, Shanti, who died when she was five years old and Mohinder was two. She says they never told Mohinder about Shanti because they were afraid Mohinder would compare himself unfavorably to her. Chandra loved Shanti very much and believed she was "special".

Mohinder arrives back at his father's office to find the same boy from his dream trying to force a drawer on the desk. Again, he asks the boy who he is, but the boy runs out down the stairs. Mohinder follows, but as he exits the building he's suddenly in New York, standing outside his father's cab as he is murdered. As the killer smashes his father's head over and over again into the side window of the cab, his watch smashes against the glass. The face cracks, and Mohinder sees that the hands are frozen at seven minutes to midnight. Suddenly, the cab has vanished but the boy appears, and he once again stretches out his hand towards Mohinder. This time, however, he's holding the key Mohinder found in his father's journal.

Waking with a start back in the office, Mohinder realizes the entire vision was another dream. He takes the key and uses it to open the drawer he saw the boy trying to force in the dream. At first, it seems empty, but he finds a file tucked up inside the drawer opening. Pulling it out, he reads the name "Sanjog, Iyer". Inside are various articles about sleep and dreaming, a few dream-like drawings, and a photograph of the boy from his dreams.

Homecoming

In Chennai, India, Mohinder and Nirand discuss the dreams Mohinder has been having. Nirand remains skeptical and claims they were simply dreams, but Mohinder tells him that in the dreams they were discussing the sister he never knew he had. He shows Nirand Sanjog's file and tells him it says that the boy can enter other people's dreams.

Mohinder and Nirand attempt to locate Sanjog Iyer. Eventually, a man directs them to Sanjog, who is playing with a soccer ball with a group of other kids. Mohinder approaches Sanjog and asks about the dreams, hoping the boy can tell him what to do, but Sanjog merely tells him he already knows the answer.

Back in Chandra's office, Mohinder has another dream, in which he sees his father trying to persuade Nirand about Sanjog's abilities. The setting of the dream shifts and Mohinder watches a conversation he had with his father where he tried to offer his assistance with the research but was rebuffed by his father. Sanjog appears before Mohinder and tells him that he has his answer.

Mohinder wakes up in the office. He looks at the computer program still running with the prompt asking if he would like to quit. He presses a key and selects No. A password prompt pops up and he tries to guess the password. After a few attempts he inputs "Shanti" and it lets him in. He's presented with a list of the [[::Category:Evolved Humans|evolved humans]] that Chandra discovered along with their location.

Later, his mother tells him that she heard from Mira that he turned down the job offer and is returning to New York. She tells him that Chandra didn't tell him that he succeeded in finding the evolved humans because he wanted Mohinder to live his own life. Mohinder tells his mother that he's going to find them and tell them who they are and warm them of the dangers. His mother worries about who will protect him.

Trivia

• The apartment Mohinder rents out in New York is apartment number 316. The apartment Sylar was using in "One Giant Leap" was number 613. Each number is the other backwards.